Social Media Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 The most powerful rocket ever developed is about to attempt a maiden launch. The vehicle, known as Starship, has been built by the American entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company. It stands almost 120m (400ft) high and is designed to have almost double the thrust of any rocket in history. Monday's uncrewed demonstration will lift off from Boca Chica in Texas. The aim is to send the upper-stage of the vehicle eastward, to complete almost one circuit of the globe. Mr Musk has appealed for everyone to temper their expectations. It's not uncommon for a rocket to experience some kind of failure on its initial outing. "It's the first launch of a very complicated, gigantic rocket, so it might not launch. We're going to be very careful, and if we see anything that gives us concern, we will postpone the launch," he told a Twitter Spaces event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard_smith237 Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 The launch can be watched here.... Launch is at 8pm Thai time. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabas Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 More rocket fuel than ever assembled before in one place. Fuel pumps alone require 3.3 million horsepower just to pump fuel to the engines. Crazy numbers. To quote Musk: Success maybe, excitement guaranteed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bkk Brian Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 Major Tom we have a problem SpaceX delays test flight of Starship, world's biggest rocket Liftoff of the giant rocket was called off just minutes ahead of the scheduled launch time because of a pressurization issue in the booster stage, SpaceX said. SpaceX founder Elon Musk said a pressure valve appeared to be frozen, forcing a postponement of the launch which had been planned for 8:20 am Central Time (1320 GMT) from Starbase, the SpaceX spaceport in Boca Chica, Texas. "Learned a lot today, now offloading propellant, retrying in a few days," Musk tweeted. https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20230417-spacex-delays-test-flight-of-starship-world-s-biggest-rocket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaibeachlovers Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 I wonder who is paying for it? Such things would surely be too expensive for any individual, or are Tesla cars overpriced? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chomper Higgot Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 36 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said: I wonder who is paying for it? Such things would surely be too expensive for any individual, or are Tesla cars overpriced? Seek and you shall find: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/space-exploration-technologies/company_financials Interestingly a significant cross over with who funds Twitter. Don’t worry people, Musk has your back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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